imo if all the richest ppl on the planet are at once begging you to lower your standards for art and media consumption you can bet that it benefits them more than whatever they selling your ass on and should consider the opposite of what's suggested

I have been walking around for four straight days with one of my contacts inside out ama

R.I.P. to one of the great ones, roots rocker extraordinaire Joe Ely. Glad we had a chance, back in August, to celebrate a Joe Ely Week at No Fences Review: I wrote about my favorite Ely solo cuts and (link in comments) @charleshughes2.bsky.social essayed the Letter to Laredo album.

Question: is it bad form to mute large bsky accounts with which you largely agree purely on grounds that they are annoying as fuck?

A surprising number of homes for sale in Davidson County tbh

Brittany is the best. Hire her to do some of them words for you!

VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE THAT WILL WORK TO EARN YOUR VOTE Tomorrow is election day, TN-7, and I'm humbly asking for your vote. I promise to be accessible and only beholden to the voters of the district, never donors or special interests. Polls open at 7 AM & close at 7 PM. Let's go out and win this!

Spent the holiday weekend around my people in Alabama and just across the Georgia border so now my accent has been restored to factory settings and no one in Nashville can understand anything I’m saying.

This, I suppose, is 46. I had a good weightlifting sesh this morning and my lovely coworkers got me pastries, so things are off to an excellent start.

Some two-decade old newspaper headlines I found while doing research: “Musicians play sports in addition to music” “Gays getting greater media prominence” (I love the second one. It has that ominous ring to it, though the article was pretty positive)

Look I know we are all thinking it but I am just going to say it: Zach Top has a very nice face.

Thing I have only just learned today because I am an idiot: slicing your finger open on aluminum foil is actually possible, and it is every bit as horrifying as you might imagine.

Shout out to the lucky fella or lady in New Orleans who wound up with the sunglasses I left on the bar at Good Friends last weekend. I hope they’ll treat you as well as they did me.

This may be the first year that I don’t think I can name a song by any of the Best New Artist nominees, which is sorta embarrassing but also I guess means that I’m old now.

It’s none of my business but who are people at the gym talking to on the phone at 6 am? Like, my partner would divorce me if I tried that with him, so I am being a bit judgy rn

A friend sent this live D’Angelo mix to me and you had better believe it is glorious on.soundcloud.com/2Lwc5rErFD6A...

Oh hey everybody, I wrote a few entries on this shiny new list: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Oh hey everybody, I wrote a few entries on this shiny new list: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Have been in Utah for long enough (5 days) that I am wondering if my life will be complete without an overlanding van

RIP Kaleb Horton, one of the most dazzling, funny, kind, & truly original writers to ever grace this endangered medium. I was lucky enough to edit him for the most popular piece we ever did theLAnd. A strange poultry odyssey of true brilliance. thelandmag.com/pioneer-frie...

Overheard at brunch in Las Vegas: “Tailgating at the Grove is, like, a spiritual experience.”

Once & for all, let's specify what "poptimism" was & wasn't, and why many people can't stop blaming it for every cultural change of the past 20 years. Most recently the esteemed Kelefa Sanneh, who's often (wrongly) said to have started it! Today in @slate.com slate.com/culture/2025...

🚨🚨🚨 (screaming in gay, etc)

Amanda Shires spent an afternoon introducing me to Lubbock and a small portion of those very fun hours is now chronicled in Texas Monthly ahead of her new album :) gift link: www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

Dadcore

Also just remembered I muscled several packs of shingles up a ladder (a practical weightlifting application, yay!) and onto a roof on Sunday, so maybe that had something to do with it

Need you all to know that I did something horrible to my back yesterday. Not at the gym while trying to lift something heavy, but after, when I was trying to pick up a shoe.

I have tucked my shirt into my pants like a grownup every day this week what is my reward

Does teenage Taylor Swift in the tiny conference room of my first job count? If not, Alabama Shakes at the Basement (150 capacity) in 2011 and Sturgîll Simpson at the same venue in 2013ish, before either had blown up.

Gym update: I still hate bench press

“I’m just trying to get this bag of kettle chips eaten down to where we can safely close it,” I say, altruistically, mouth half full

Look, I’m not one to demand credit for things, but I’ll have you know that I’ve had a jar of Biscoff cookie butter in the pantry for months and it is still mostly intact, so… (It’s good as hell on saltines fyi)

David Byrne telling anecdotes about Lou Reed’s prodigious ice cream consumption is everything. Bravo, @simonwilliam.bsky.social

I suppose I should feel bad about eating three hot dogs for dinner but I do not feel anything besides satisfaction for eating three hot dogs for dinner

Dragon’s Mouth Spring #yellowstonenationalpark #yellowstone #mudvolcano #nationalpark #wyoming

I should find a side hustle that’s just a barter for cool shoes or luxury automobiles

Good morning mainly to the tiny spider that resides in my driver’s side mirror

After careful consideration, I have decided that I will only be mowing the grass when it’s not 9000 degrees out. The neighbors will have to cope.

I have a public event thing I’m hosting in a month and I’m already stressed about it. Not about the content of the program, mind you, but about what I should wear so I can appear to be some magical combination of serious and cool.

Y’all this is so stupid

Here’s a drive we took along the gorgeous Beartooth Highway in mid June, starting in Wyoming and ending in Montana. We stop at Rock Creek Vista Point and visit with a hungry marmot! youtu.be/HEnRsg_JazQ #scenicdrive #beartooth #marmot

Nashville, this is just your reminder that Elon Musk's 68 mile Las Vegas tunnel is just a two mile loop under their convention center where Tesla employees drive people at 35 miles an hour. No 68 miles. No autonomous cars. And there's a weird toxic sludge.

What I’m hearing: stay inside, read, and sip gin instead of mowing the grass. Which, I’m happy to comply!

I made a NYT cooking thing that was like an easy weeknight meal or whatever and it took something like 2 and a half hours and I have never felt more like throwing myself off a cliff. Turned out pretty good tho

Oh hey everybody, I co-curated this huge Lainey Wilson exhibit and now you can come check it out!

A stunning scene from our recent trip to Yellowstone

I just spoke in public for something like an hour and I think I’m pretty good at it? I am as surprised as anyone, having mostly avoided it like radioactive waste before now.

The Abyss Pool. Vacation sights with @thejonfreeman.bsky.social

fun new story up at drti - talking to ditch kurtz, the pedal steel player running for governor of tennessee www.dontrocktheinbox.com/p/issue-106-...

Inching closer to full bear status as a new CPAP user, which feels like a strange achievement to unlock. But hey, I’m sleeping better so that’s something!